“PEOPLE OF JAX // MARIANNE” (May 29), by Becky Gibson. Somewhere in the City: People, places, and happenings in Jacksonville. This site’s goal is to help ignite the growth of a proactive community.Read

“’Affluntia Poesis’: Meeting Poetry in the Universe of Possibility” (May 28). On the Blink, by Emily Michael. Considering how my light is spent. Blog posts, music reviews, and published articles from a blind writer, musician, and Jacksonville English instructor.Read

Brain Pickings, by Maria Popova. A library of cross-disciplinary interestingness and combinatorial creativity.Read

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“Down-home georgetown” (June 1). Calvin’s Story, by Christy Shake. Epilepsy & beyond: a mother’s journal. A mother’s journal of the anguish, grief, joy, and triumph shared with her chronically ill son.Christy and Calvin live in Maine.Read

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“Saying the right thing.” (May 21). Maggie World, by Sally Coghlan McDonald. Normalizing the abnormal. A mother sharing her experiences raising her disabled daughter and navigating, advocating and dealing with the system. [Although Maggie passed away in 2014, her mother continues to write. She lives in San Francisco.]Read

Eat & Gargoyle Magazine.A Jacksonville literary magazine published by Mark Ari: “I’m delighted to announce a new EAT Release in collaboration with Gargoyle Magazine. Gargoyle, based in Washington D.C. and edited by poet Richard Peabody, is one of the longest running and most respected independent journals in the country.” Read. . .

Eat Flash #1. EAT Flash is a collection of writers reading their own brief works of fiction, creative nonfiction, and prose poetry. All of the writers are connected to the Jacksonville area. Work by Al Letson, Coe Douglas, Mark Ari, Tim Gilmore, Hurley Winkler, Sohrab Homi Fracis, April Gray Wilder, Marcus Pactor, Grant Kittrell, and Christine Utz. Produced by Mark Ari.Listen

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Eat the Public Domain. EAT the Public Domain is devoted to songs and poetry in the public domain. Most of participants are Jacksonville musicians and/or poets. Work by Mark Ari, Teri Youmans Grimm, Steven Sherrill, Spiral Bound, Mark Williams, Dewgrass, Davis Parry.Produced by Mark Ari. Listen

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Mudlark, edited by Dr. William Slaughter and published in Jacksonville. An electronic journal of poetry and poetics.Dr. Slaughter is Professor Emeritus of UNF’s English department. Read